thylacines
Meaning of thylacines
plural noun
a doglike carnivorous marsupial with stripes across the rump, found only in Tasmania. There have been no confirmed sightings since one was captured in 1933, and it is probably now extinct.
mid 19th century: from modern Latin Thylacinus (genus name), from Greek thulakos ‘pouch’.
Information about thylacines
- It is a name.
- The singular form of thylacines is: thylacine.
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Hyphenation of thylacines
thy-lacines
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- thylacines is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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